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NASA's plan to deflect an asteroid: Can we really save Earth?

Picture this. You're sitting at breakfast, scrolling the news, when suddenly headlines scream that a space rock the size of a ...
Morning Overview on MSN

NASA is tracking a bus-size asteroid heading our way; should you worry?

A bus-size asteroid is on course to skim past our planet, a reminder that Earth moves through a shooting gallery of rocks and ...
Yahoo

How "asteroid detectives" are protecting Earth from potential danger

Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space. Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth known as ...
Gizmodo

Earth Is Safe From Menacing Asteroid—but Our Moon Might Take the Hit

New Webb Telescope data confirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, not so much. Reading time 3 minutes An asteroid is headed toward a close ...
The New York Times

Earth’s 1st Asteroid Mining Prospector Heads to the Launchpad

The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off. By Jonathan O’Callaghan ...